On 29/06/07, Heartland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
The contradiction exists only in the minds of those who can't see or are unable
to
accept that "consciousness" doesn't transfer to a copy regardless of anything
else. Once this is clear, the imaginary paradox disappears. This paradox has
always
been merely a part of the map, not a part of the territory.
Stathis:
Although you make an exception when the copying takes place gradually
inside your own head, switching atoms in your brain for new ones
obtained from environmental raw materials, and excreting the original
atoms.
There is no exception because the two cases are not equivalent when you look at
them from the identity of a process (consciousness is an example of a process, not
an example of atoms) perspective.
Yes, they *are* equivalent from the identity of atoms perspective which is exactly
what you have in mind here.
The only "functions/methods" that are defined for all processes in this Universe
are "create" and "destroy", but not "transfer". "Transfer" doesn't compile even
though many people think it does.
H.
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